Safety-pin.



No. 849,558. PATENTED APR. 9, 1907. S. A. NEWMAN.

SAFETY PIN;

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11, 1906.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFTCE STEPHEN A. NEWVMAN, OF OASSVILLE, MISSOURI,ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO ALONZO LEE BROWN, OF CASSVILLE, MISSOURI.

SAFETY-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 9, 1907.

Application filed May 11,1906. Serial No. 316,415.

To (all w/to'nt it "my concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN A. NEWMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cassville, in the county of Barry and State of Missouri,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Pins; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in safety-pins andfasteners, and comprises means whereby the resilient arm having thepoint of the pin may be held rigidly by means of a plate which is foldedupon itself over the wire of the pin, thereby affording a means forthoroughly bracing the pin.

My invention comprises various other de tails of construction andcombinations and arrangements of parts, which will be hereinafter fullydescribed and then specifically defined in the appended claims.

I illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure1 is a side elevation of my improved safety-pin. Fig. 2 is an enlargedsectional view upon line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation ofthe pin with the plate removed.

Fig. 4 is a detail view of the plate, and Figs. 5

and 6 are detail views of slightly-modified forms of my invention. F ig.7 is a detail view of the modified form of clamping-plate shown in Fig.5.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, Adesignates a safetypin having a loop B formed in the back thereofwithout twisting the pin upon itself, as is commonly the practice inmaking safetypins with integral hooks, and which twisting has a tendencyto weaken the pin at the an,- gles formed by the twisting.

C designates a plate, which may be of any desirable shape and isprovided with a central opening D and a neck O, which terminates in ahook C The upper portion of said plate is adapted to be folded over theback of the pin and over said loop or hook B, so that the oppositemarginal edges of the opening in said plate will come opposite eachother, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, with the strips of the plateformmg reinforcmg members for the parts of the wire ad acent to thelocation where said loop or hook is formed. One end of said plate isprovided with a groove I, adapted to receive the neck O of the platewhen the latter is bent upon itself. After the plate has been bent inthe manner shown, thereby securely clampii'ig the back portion of thepin and the loop or bend therein, the pin is .in readiness to beattached to any fabric by taking two stitches therein, one at each sideof the portion of the pin which is adapted to engage the hook When thepin is attached to a fabric in the manner shown, it will be noted thatthe strain coming upon the central portions of the pin is relieved bythe utilization of the plate and the parts of the pin engaged by theplate in the manner shown will be reinforced and braced, therebysecurely holding the same from bending incident to any pressure that maycome upon the pin.

In Fig. 5 of the drawings I have shown a slight modification of myinvention, in which the central clamping-plate E is provided with wingsE and E the former projecting laterally from the plate and the latterfrom one end thereof, and said wings are adapted to fold over the bentportion of the back of the pin to securely hold the plate from.longitudinal movement on the pin and also serving as a means for bracingthe pin, while the contlacted end F of the plate is bent to form a hookto engage the resilient arm having the pin-point, said pin being adaptedto engage the fabric in the same manner as before described of the pinillustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

In Fig. 6 I have shown a still different modification of said plate, inwhich the upper end K thereof is circular-outlined and adapted to bendover an angular portion L, formed in the back of the pin, while the neckof said plate is bent to form the usual hook F. In said Fig. 6 of thedrawings the semicircular portion is shown in dotted lines in theposition it would assume before the same is bent upon itself in themanner shown in solid lines.

From the foregoing it will be observed that by the provision of a pinmade in accordance with my invention a simple and efficient means isafforded for supporting a garment and preventing the pin from being bentat the location Where a considerable strain comes upon the pin-point andalso upon the back of the pin, the strain being divided upon each sideof the central support, as will be clearly understood.

What I claim is- 1. A safety-pin made up of a single piece of wire whichhas its shank portion bent to form a loop at right angles thereto, ametallic plate having a contracted portion adapted to be bent over saidshank portion and said loop and extending upon both sides of the latter,said contracted portion of the plate being bent to form a hook oppositesaid loop and adapted to receive the middle portion of thefabricengaging part of the pin, as set forth.

2. A safety-pin made of a single piece of Wire having its shank portionbent to form a loop at right angles thereto, a plate having alongitudinal slot and provided With a contracted portion which is bentto form a hook, said plate adapted to be bent about said shank portionof the pin With the loop positioned in said slot, the shank portion ofsaid book being adapted to seat in a recess formed at the end of saidplate, the fabric-engaging portion of the pin designed to engage saidhook, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiiX my signature in the presence oftWo Witnesses.

STEPHEN A. NEWMAN. Witnesses:

L. F. JoNEs, M. HORINE.

